From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: jidanni@jidanni.org Subject: "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"? Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2008 03:37:19 +0800 Message-ID: <87sko6lqmo.fsf_-_@jidanni.org> References: <7vfxk7cnmw.fsf@gitster.siamese.dyndns.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nanako3@lavabit.com, git@vger.kernel.org To: gitster@pobox.com X-From: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Mon Dec 29 20:38:45 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: gcvg-git-2@gmane.org Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.176.167]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LHNwo-0000nM-3u for gcvg-git-2@gmane.org; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 20:38:42 +0100 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752049AbYL2ThX (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:37:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751870AbYL2ThX (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:37:23 -0500 Received: from sd-green-bigip-145.dreamhost.com ([208.97.132.145]:42035 "EHLO homiemail-a1.g.dreamhost.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751810AbYL2ThW (ORCPT ); Mon, 29 Dec 2008 14:37:22 -0500 Received: from jidanni.org (122-127-33-187.dynamic.hinet.net [122.127.33.187]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by homiemail-a1.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 97C72119E11; Mon, 29 Dec 2008 11:37:21 -0800 (PST) Sender: git-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: git@vger.kernel.org Archived-At: JCH> I think he is comparing "git am" and "git-am" the latter of which is now JCH> deprecated and largely removed from the end user. By the way, we here at the end user end have a hard time detecting if "git-whatever" the new style vs. "git whatever"... Idea: right at top of "man git" say: You might have noticed sometimes people write "git-whatever" and sometimes write "git whatever", well ... JCH> IOW, the seeming inconsistency is not an issue anymore in practice in the JCH> post 1.6.0 era. (I was just hoping everything is consistent, one way or the other.)